1. 1. George Washington -selection of a Cabinet to advise him
-set precedents for Presidents
-selection of a Cabinet to advise him
-Whiskey Rebellion
-Hamilton’s economic policies
-bank and money system

2. 2. John Adams -Jay’s Treaty -XYZ Affair -Alien and Sedition Acts
-Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

3. 3. Thomas Jefferson -Marbury v Madison -judicial review
-agriculture should be basis of the economy
-wanted to take out Hamilton’s economic plans
-Louisiana Purchase
-Lewis and Clark expedition
-strict interpretation of the Constitution

4. 4. James Madison - “Father of the Constitution”
-War of British impressment of Amer. Sailors
-Battle of New Orleans
-Dolley Madison

5. 5. James Monroe - “Era of Good Feeling” Missouri Compromise-1820
Monroe Doctrine

6. 6. John Quincy Adams -Adams-Onis Treaty to get Florida from Spain
-defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824 in a nasty campaign
-Adams-Onis Treaty to get Florida from Spain

7. 7. Andrew Jackson -Spoils system -Kitchen Cabinet
-Democrat- “common man”
-Spoils system
-Kitchen Cabinet
-Indian Removal Act-1830-Trail of Tears
-Federal vs state power
-more people voting
-Jacksonian democracy

8. 8. Martin Van Buren
- Trail of Tears

9. 9. William Henry Harrison
-was president for 30 days

10. 10. John Tyler

11. 11. James K. Polk -Mexican War- 1846-1848
-settles Oregon border with Britain
-California Gold Rush 1848

12. 12. Zachary Taylor

13. 13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 -The Compromise of 1850
-Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

14. 14. Franklin Pierce
-Gadsden Purchase
-Bleeding Kansas

15. 15. James Buchanan
-December southern states begin seceding from the Union- he took no action
-John Brown’s Raid

16. 16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 -Civil War -13th amendment passed
Homestead Act
Morrill Act

17. 17. Andrew Johnson -became Pres. with the assassination of Lincoln
-impeached by the Radical Republicans but not removed from office
-presided over Reconstruction of the South

18. 18. Ulysses S. Grant -1869- Transcontinental Railroad -telephone
-considered one of the worst Presidents

19. 19. Rutherford B. Hayes
- Given the election in the Compromise of in return he promised to end Reconstruction

20. 20. James A. Garfield
-assassinated in 1881

21. 21. Chester A. Arthur -1882- Chinese Exclusion Act
-Standard Oil trust created

22. 22. Grover Cleveland
-Samuel Gompers and the Amer. Federation of Labor formed

23. 23. Benjamin Harrison -1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act -Populism
-Hull House- community org. to help immigrants- “settlement houses”

24. 24. Grover Cleveland -Plessy v. Ferguson- “separate but equal”
-Pullman strike
-Tammany Hall-political machine- Boss Tweed

25. 25. William McKinley -1898 Spanish-American War
-Open Door Policy (China)
-assassinated in 1901

26. 26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 -Progressivism -National Park System
-”Square Deal”- domestic policy
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”- foreign policy
-Panama Canal
Wright Brothers air flight- 1903

27. 27. William Howard Taft 1909-1913 -first auto kept at the White House
-16th amendment income taxes
-”Dollar Diplomacy”

28. 28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 -U.S. joins World War I- 1918
-Treaty of Versailles- 14 Points
-Women get right to vote- 1920
-Prohibition begins -1921
-”moral diplomacy”

29. 29. Warren G. Harding - “Return to Normalcy” -Teapot Dome Scandal
- “Return to Normalcy”
-Teapot Dome Scandal
-dies in office

30. 30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 -Jazz Age – “Roaring 20s”
-Harlem Renaissance
Native Americans get right to vote

31. 31. Herbert Hoover The Great Depression Dust Bowl
-Pres. when the stock market crashes in 1929
The Great Depression
Dust Bowl

32. 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt - The New Deal -World War II -Holocaust
-Japanese Internment

33. 33. Harry S Truman -drops atomic bombs to end WWII -Marshall Plan
-Cold War
-Korean War
-United Nations created

34. 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower -hero of WW II -McCarthyism
-Brown v. Board of Education- 1954
-interstate highway system

35. 35. John F. Kennedy -elected in 1960- assassinated in 1963
“New Frontier”
Berlin Wall built- 1961
Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
NASA- the space race
Peace Corp
March on Washington

36. 36. Lyndon B. Johnson -Pres. after Kennedy is assassinated
-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
-escalates the war in Vietnam
-the “Great Society”
“War on Poverty”
Civil Rights Act-1964
Voting Rights Act

37. 37. Richard M. Nixon -1968-re-elected in 1972 -visits China
-détente with the Soviet Union
-Vietnamization of the War
-Vietnam war ends in 1973

38. 38. Gerald R. Ford
-Pardons Nixon

39. 39. James E. Carter -elected in 1976 -energy crisis -hostages in Iran
-Camp David Accords

40. 40. Ronald Reagan -1980-1988 -Conservatism
“trickle down” theory of economics- Reganomics
-supply side economics
-Arms reduction talks with Soviets

41. 41. George H.W. Bush
-Gulf War- Operation Desert Storm- against Iraq
-fall of Berlin Wall and USSR

42. 42. William Jefferson Clinton (Bill)
-NAFTA
-impeached
-Balanced budget
-good economy

43. 43. George W. Bush -controversial election of 2000
- Attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
-War on Terror
-Invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
-PATRIOT Act
-stimulus package and bank bail- out

44. 44. Barack Obama -elected in 2008 -second stimulus package
-lack of confidence, political arguments continue to slow economy
-conserv. –liberals unable to find compromise